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From: kehoe@reed.UUCP (Dave Kehoe)
Newsgroups: net.cycle
Subject: Re: Tollway speed record
Message-ID: <1713@reed.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 21-Jul-85 22:48:27 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jul 21 22:48:27 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 25-Jul-85 04:55:55 EDT
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Reply-To: kehoe@reed.UUCP (Dave Kehoe)
Organization: Reed College, Portland, Oregon
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Last summer a Reed College student got ticketed at
143 mph.  He'd already lost his license, I was
surprised that he wasn't thrown in jail.  He was
on his Suzuki GS1000ES.  He used to race his Honda
CB500-four at 130mph.  He rides in town at 120mph and
above.  Surprisingly, he's a very safe driver -- he's
never been in an accident.  Most people that try to do
stuff like that get seriously hurt.  Anyway, an unmarked
cop car clocked him on radar at 143 mph and started chasing him.
My friend was thinking, "I'd better slow down -- I might get
a ticket."  When he slowed down the cop caught him.  If he
hadn't slowed down the cop wouldn't have caught him.
Once before someone had seen my friend being chased by a
cop, and blowing the cop off, and my friend had never even
noticed that he was being followed.

I don't ride above 65 mph when I'm alone, and never above 85 mph,
but the previous owner of my bike (a 1972 Honda CB450) once rode
it at over 100 mph, and I read that CB450's used to be ridden
up to 130 mph.  My neighbor rode his Honda CB550 to 100 mph, which
developed a front-end oscillation and flipped over. He luckily
wasn't hurt, and decided not to try to break anymore speed records
(and to tighten up his headset).
-- 
"Why my thoughts are my own, when they are in, but when they are out
they are another's."  -- Susanna Martin, executed for witchcraft.
Dave Kehoe   tektronix!reed!kehoe   (503) 230-9454